ROMEO LA
A classy original design courtesy of master luthier Otto D’Ambrosio, the Eastman Romeo arrived on the map in 2019 seeking to answer the question, “What would the Telecaster of the archtop world look and sound like?” The following year, the Romeo SC went further down that road by swapping the neck humbucker for a hum-cancelling Telecaster neck pickup, the Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack. Now Romeo’s third incarnation has been unveiled and it steers the model into hot-rod territory with the addition of a custom-colour metallic finish and the switch to fully laminated body construction, a vibrato tailpiece and raw nickel Radiator pickup covers with gold foil peeking through the slots.
“We were thinking about what we could do to create an addition to the Romeo line that would appeal to a different player
